A Russian state media propagandist has threatened King Charles with a “ceremonial” nuclear bomb. And he urged the monarch to get his 72-hour emergency suitcase packed and ready.

Russian media analyst Vladimir Kornilov mocked up the AI image amid claims Britain is not taking Russia’s warnings about the peril for Western soldiers with boots on the ground in Ukraine seriously. The threat to the King comes after Kornilov appeared alongside the Kremlin’s top TV Vladimir Solovyov, who taunted Sir Keir Starmer to lead his troops into Ukraine. “Well, we've already buried a lot of Brits here, and a lot of Frenchmen.

“Well, come [to Ukraine], all of you, all of you die.”

He told his state TV viewers: “It would be good if the columns of French and British troops were led directly by their supreme commanders.

“So that if we use tactical nuclear weapons, we use them wisely.

“Why? Would anyone feel sorry for them?”

Starmer should lead the British troops, he said, but Kornilov said the king was the commander in chief.

They argued on screen about this, and whether Charles merely had a ceremonial role.

Kornilov has since posted: “Some special ceremonial bombs should be flying at the king if he sticks his nose in our way…

“By the way, does he have a 72-hour ‘emergency suitcase packed?”

The propaganda media is in a frenzy over the Starmer plan to send British and European troops to Ukraine, interpreting it wrongly as a threat to Russia.

Putin ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin said today: “The Americans don't want to go to war with us anymore, but they give the European Union [the opportunity] to continue doing it....

“Europe is now making a suicidal move.

“It wants to actually go to war with us directly.

“This is more serious than fighting in Ukraine.”

But Russia had defeated Napoleon and Hitler and a war with the “completely decomposed, migrant-saturated” modern European Union will not last long.